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Concealed carry: Court strikes down Illinois' ban
Tribune reportersThe state of Illinois would have to allow ordinary citizens to carry weapons under a federal appeals court ruling issued today, but the judges also gave lawmakers 180 days to put their own version of the law in place. In a 2-1 decision that is a major...Tags: Bloomington, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Laws, Justice System
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CPS head, lawmaker vow to work on truancy after Tribune series
Tribune reporterA top state lawmaker and the head of the Chicago Public schools on Monday vowed to support a high-level task force aimed at combating the crisis in K-8 grade absenteeism and truancy exposed by a recent Tribune series. Speaking at a drop-out prevention...Tags: Government, Union League Club, Linda Chapa LaVia, Chicago Tribune, Politics
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Illinois House, Senate pass dueling versions of CPS school closings measure
The Illinois House today voted to give Mayor Rahm Emanuel's education team another four months to come up with a list of school closings. The Senate then passed its own bill, but the two chambers must pass the same actual legislation before it can...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Chicago Public Schools
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Rep. Derrick Smith booted from office
— Democratic Rep. Derrick Smith on Friday became the first lawmaker tossed out of the Illinois House in more than 100 years, but he might not be gone for long. Shortly after his colleagues voted 100-6 to expel him, Smith took to his lawyer's office...
Tags: Jesse White, Mary E Flowers, Illinois, Monique D Davis, Justice System
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Illinois House expels Rep. Derrick Smith over bribery charge
Clout StreetState lawmakers today kicked out a West Side Democrat accused of taking a $7,000 bribe, marking the first expulsion from the Illinois House since 1905. Rep. Derrick Smith failed to show up to defend himself or hear his fellow House lawmakers condemn...Tags: White House, Charles E Jefferson, Jesse White, Illinois, Barack Obama
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House committee recommends expelling Rep. Smith
A state legislative committee voted 11-1 Thursday to recommend that the full Illinois House expel Rep. Derrick Smith over federal bribery charges. “It’s with a heavy heart we take this action today,” said Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-...
Tags: Corporate Crime, James B. Durkin, Bribery, Illinois General Assembly, Louis I Lang
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Quinn signs super PAC campaign finance law
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Friday that lifts the state’s campaign contribution limits to candidates once big money starts flowing into a state or local political contest, a move one watchdog group decried as effectively...Tags: Laws, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Rod Blagojevich, Executive Branch
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Favorable legislation flows to private clients of House Speaker Madigan
Chicago's largest operator of assisted living homes for the poor was looking to grow its business when it decided to add a new member to its legal team: the law firm of House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Within months of that decision, the most powerful...Tags: Business Enterprises, Taxation, Ethics, Nursing, Justice System
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Digging a pension hole
Illinois' pension system was in precarious enough shape in 1994 that Democrats and Republicans came together to solve a crisis threatening the state's financial future.
The agreement they forged was supposed to take politics out of pension funding by...Tags: Pension and Welfare, State Budgets, Career and Workplace, Interior Policy, Civil and Public Service
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Anti-Obama ad flap deals blow to Wrigley Field rehab plan
![The long-shot prospect of taxpayer help to renovate Wrigley Field grew more remote Thursday, upended by revelations that the patriarch of the <a href="http://chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>' ownership team had been offered a plan for using a super PAC to run racially tinged attack ads that linked President Barack Obama to his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-05/70002993-17222933.jpeg "The long-shot prospect of taxpayer help to renovate Wrigley Field grew more remote Thursday, upended by revelations that the patriarch of the <a href="http://chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs\">Chicago Cubs</a>' ownership team had been offered a plan for using a super PAC to run racially tinged attack ads that linked President Barack Obama to his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.")
The long-shot prospect of taxpayer help to renovate Wrigley Field grew more remote Thursday, upended by revelations that the patriarch of the Chicago Cubs' ownership team had been offered a plan for using a super PAC to run racially tinged attack ads that...Tags: Tom Barrett, Scott Walker, NATO Summit, Richard M. Daley, Sports
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Illinois House approves $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House today approved a $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike to generate money for health care coverage for the poor. The 60-52 vote by the House, which has in the past rejected cigarette tax hike proposals, came a day after lawmakers...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, Medicaid, Tobacco Products, Health Insurance
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